As a country with a strong foundation of freedom of speech, an open media and the free–flow of information, our lack of
information sharing in advance of 9/11 surprised and shocked many Americans. As the events of that day unfolded, and
the subsequent investigations into the why’s and how’s revealed our weaknesses, we quickly learned that our information
sharing systems were not where they needed to be. First responders found their communications equipment and procedures
lacking – there was no interoperability between police, fire services, and other responders and no agency coordination
process was in place to share any strategic information. Federal, state and local intelligence agencies did not have a way to
share the information necessary to put the pieces together to understand the attack was imminent. We needed a new paradigm
to assure that the right people would get the right information at the right time. How did we get here? Read the monograph.

Thank you to Council member ITT Corporation for sponsoring this monograph.